Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Jarring juxtaposition



Came home last night after an evening of very friendly carnality, relaxed and in a better mood than I have been in for some time. Not surprising. Good give-and-take with a man of experience. The male animal is a wondrous beast.

Sat down to check my email and turned on the TV. Before I knew it, I was watching a program on Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge Communist regime in Cambodia in the 1970’s.


As my time and my memories of my evening of play and pleasure were specific, so the stories of those terrible years in “Democratic Kampuchea” were specific. Not only the grand statistics – almost 2 million killed in 5 years—but individual interviews with survivors, who told exactly what happened to them.


Not one…not one…of the leaders of that regime has ever been brought to justice. Wondrous beast indeed.


So…then I went to bed. Another night on Planet Earth.

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